06.06.2017

Chamber Ensembles at the XXV Stars of the White Nights Festival

On June 7 (20:00) a series of chamber ensembles performances will open with an instrumental trio performance at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre. The Hungarian musicians – violinist Kristóf Baráti, with his truly unique musical talent and multiple awards, including the most prestigious Hungarian Arts Award, and István Várdai, a representative of the young generation of cellists, who has already gained broad international recognition – are set to perform with Zarina Shimanskaya (piano), a graduate of the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire and a prize-winner at various international competitions. The Beethoven mono programme includes the Sonata No. 7 for violin and piano, Sonata No. 5 for cello and piano, and the Piano Trio in B-flat major (the Archduke Trio).

On June 10 (16.00) the String Sextets of Johannes Brahms (the String Sextet No. 2) and Pyotr Tchaikovsky (the String Sextet Souvenir de Florence) will be performed at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre. The performers for the night are Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici, a Romanian violinist and soloist with the Mariinsky Theatre, Wilfried Strehle, a German viola player, and the musicians of the Mariinsky Orchestra. The following day Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici will put on his conductor hat and perform with the Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble. The programme includes Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Astor Piazzolla’s The Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (June 11, the Concert Hall, 19.00).

June 12 will see the performance of the young musicians of the Sibelius Academy Cello Ensemble headed by Martti Rousi at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre (16.00). The renowned Finnish cellist and his students, many of whom have won prizes at national and international competitions and have frequently performed as soloists, first performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in 2015 and have since given concerts at the Theatre every year. The ensemble’s repertoire spans different styles and periods – from the Renaissance and the Baroque to the Romantic-era composers and the classical composers of the 20th century. At the Stars of the White Nights festival, the ensemble will perform the works of Jean Baptiste Breval, David Popper, Jean Sibelius, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Aija Puurtinen, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and Heitor Villa-Lobos. The soloist – soprano coloratura Piia Komsi.

The Stars of the White Nights festival will also feature the performances of such renowned ensembles as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centre, known for its impeccable performing skills (June 16 – 18, the Stravinsky Foyer and the Concert Hall), and the Philharmonix ensemble, which unites the musicians of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic (June 24, the Concert Hall, 21.00).

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